Sons of Confederate Veterans Outsource Flag

Looks like that big-ass Confederate flag is now flying high above Interstates 10 and 4 in Florida. But don’t get too excited about this high-profile example of Southern Pride and Heritage because this flag was not born from the belly of the “Old South.” It would be nice to think that the kind ladies from the United Daughters of the Confederacy sewed their loving memories of Bobby Lee into the flag or that the job was given to one of the suffering textile mills that once dotted the South.

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